Brent Ozar hits us with a blast from the past:
And you’ve wondered what the big deal is. Well, kiddo, in this post, let’s take a trip down memory lane and I’ll show you how good we used to have it.
First off, you’re gonna ask why the debugger console display isn’t on. Buckle up, because this is a journey.
Long before we could run the debugger and Profiler remotely, and certainly a long time before the days of USB, we had to attach the debugger directly to the SQL Server we needed to monitor. To do it, we used to have PS/2 ports on the backs of our computers (there were other ports before that, and yes i remember them, and no, I don’t even wanna think about how bad debugging was back then.) The debugger console plugged into these ports:
By the way, as Brent’s tag points out, this was a joke. Though that does look like a neat editing controller.